The opening title credits for “Rodney Mullen Vs. Daewon Song” fly onto the screen like text in a remedial PowerPoint presentation. The picture is grainy, as almost all VHS tapes were, and cuts bounce into each other instead of sliding with contemporary digital smoothness. The black background and white lettering is…

Before the start of the 2018 Premier League season, NBC Sports announced a big, and unwelcome, change to its coverage. Since NBC took over the U.S. broadcasting rights for the Premier League, all games had been available to subscribers, whether on one of the network’s many TV channels or through its streaming service.…

American soccer is a monarchy. Major League Soccer sits on the throne and no matter how hard anyone has tried, it’s been there and is going to sit there as long as its owners — who either paid millions of dollars to join that exclusive club or suffered through the lean years of formation and contraction — have the…

The Premier League table looks out of whack. Chelsea has hovered near the relegation zone. And Leicester City sits atop, tied with Manchester City on points. It’s early, yes, but with 29 points from their opening 14 games, Leicester City has surprised the Premier League — the club had 41 points in the whole of last…

Bob Bradley overcame a lot in leading an Egyptian national team a playoff game away from next summer's World Cup. But after losing 7-3 on aggregate to Ghana in a two-game playoff, no sympathy was shown to the former U.S. Men's National Team coach and his contract with Egypt was not extended.

Croatia qualified for the World Cup in Brazil next summer by beating Iceland, 2-0, and celebrations were much deserved. Except, celebrating by leading a pro-Nazi chant isn't a good idea or sensible thing to do, but defender Josip Simunic hasn't always been a sensible person.

Cristiano Ronaldo probably knew he had to score all of Portugal's goals to make sure they got the job done in Sweden in the second leg of their playoff for a spot in next summer's World Cup in Brazil after watching Hugo Almeida head an easy chance from a Ronaldo cross into the side netting. So, Ronaldo decided to out…

The U.S. Men's National Team had a strong year in 2013. They qualified for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil for the seventh consecutive time, kept their greatest rival, Mexico, alive for a chance at 2014, and won 16 games in all competitions, including a 12-game winning streak. But had to rain on the USMNT parade today…

Luis Suarez is really good at soccer. He's one of the best players in the world (if not the most controversial) and Liverpool's best player and, with Liverpool in the midst of their best Premier League season since 2009, owner John Henry isn't messing around with weekend with the local derby against Everton scheduled…

Lunenburg High School's football has forfeited its final two remaining regular-season games after racist graffiti was painted on a 13-year-old student's home last week. The incident is believed to be an alleged hate crime against an eighth grader on the team by his own teammates.